Historical Study & Educational Resources

An Award-winning Author Reconsiders The Role Of Historians In Political Debate. For Generations, British Thinkers Told The History Of An Empire Whose Story ...

On 2 June 1953, 27-year-old Princess Elizabeth of York was crowned Queen, the eyes of the world upon her as she dedicated herself to her country. It is fasc...

A National bestseller, The Dictionary of Cultural Literacy has been widely acclaimed for identifying and defining the core body of knowledge that no litera...

Glorious Photographs Of Every Part Of The World. Delving Deeply Into Century-old Picture Archive National Geographic Presents The World's Hugely Diverse Pla...

The profound emotion felt around the world upon seeing images of Notre-Dame in flames opens up a series of questions: Why was everyone so deeply moved? Wh...

Think You Know What the Bible Really Says About Sex? Think Again. Is premarital sex a sin? When, and in what contexts, is sexual desire appropriate? With ...

An Extraordinary Book That Explores How The Earth Itself Has Shaped The Western Imagination And How, As A Result, Our Interaction With The Environment Is Fa...

Product Description The #1 New York Times BestsellerSo, I've written a book.Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable ...

Using history to challenge Communist Party rule.Sparks: China's Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future describes how some of China's best-kn...

Gender History : Meanings, Methods, And Metanarratives -- Feminist History After The Linguistic Turn : Historicizing Discourse And Experience -- Difficult D...

Jared Diamond.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences AnthropologyCultural

This is a fascinating 2008 study of the Vietnamese experience and memory of the Vietnam War through the lens of popular imaginings about the wandering souls...

John Weir Perry. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. [229]-238.Categories: Medical Books Psychology MovementsTranspersonal

#1 New York Times Bestseller * #1 Sunday Times Bestseller * #1 Indie Next Pick A Best Book Of The Year: The Washington Post * Npr * The Atlantic * New York ...

A love letter to a sport that's losing itself, from one of Canada's best sports writers.Canadian hockey is approaching a state of crisis. It's become more ...

Oh, Florida! That Name. That Combination Of Sounds. Three Simple Syllables, And Yet Packing So Many Mixed Messages. To Some People, It's A Paradise. To Othe...

American religion—like talk of God—is omnipresent. Popular culture is awash in religious messages, from the singing cucumbers and tomatoes of the animated...

An Introduction: The Present State Of Atlantic History, Philip D. Morgan And Jack P. Greene. 1. The Atlantic Ocean And Its Contemporary Meanings, 1492-1808,...

The history of Guinness, one of the world’s most famous brands, reveals the noble heights and generosity of a great family and an innovative business. It...

one Hundred Twenty Pages Of Illustrations, Accompanied By Descriptive Captions, Depict One-piece Strapless Bathing Suits And Dresses With Plunging Necklin...

The Rich Pageant Of Britains History Emerges Nowhere More Colorfully Than In The Story Of Its Kings And Queens. This New Paperback Offers An Attractive And ...

Bestselling author Ken McGoogan tells the story of those courageous Scots who, ruthlessly evicted from their ancestral homelands, were sent to Canada in co...

A ground-breaking work of nation building, this unique biographical book by many of English and French Canada's best-known writers and thinkers -- Margaret...

Featuring case studies on the most fascinating spies and plots through history and illustrated with rare photographs throughout, The History of Espionage de...

Decades ahead of the amusing but distorting buffoonery of Blackadder Goes Forth, this complete edition of the Wipers Times, the famed trench newspaper of th...

Macmillan Illustrates How Dangerous History Can Be In The Hands Of Nationalistic Or Religious Or Ethnic Leaders Who Use It To Foster A Sense Of Grievance An...

In his time the most famous physician in the world, Canadian-born William Osler (1849-1919) is still the best-known figure in the history of medicine. This...

With nearly 1,500 Broadway performances, six Tony Awards, more than three million albums sold, and five Academy Awards, The Sound of Music, based on the li...

The author of the runaway bestseller How the Irish Saved Civilization has done it again. In The Gifts of the Jews Thomas Cahill takes us on another enchant...

Now completely revised and updated, this new edition of the essential consumer guide to wine features all the most current information for today’s wine la...

On December 6, 1917, the French munitions ship Mont Blanc and the Norwegian war-relief vessel Imo collided in the harbour at Halifax, Nova Scotia. That acc...

Exploring Toronto's history through tantalizing true tales of romance, marriage, and lust. Toronto's past is filled with passion and heartache. The Toronto...

Empire of Sin is a vibrant account of New Orleans in the early 1920s, a time when commercialised vice, jazz culture and endemic crime formed the background ...

***new York Times Bestseller*** ***best Books Of 2018 Selection By*** * Washington Post * People * Npr * Esquire * Elle * Wired * Refinery 29 * “in A Year...

From the award-winning author of A Splendid Exchange, a fascinating new history of financial and religious mass manias over the past five centuries "We ar...

A Bill Gates Summer Reading Pick A Riveting And Illuminating (yuval Noah Harari) New Theory Of How And Why Some Nations Recover From Trauma And Others Don't...

There is a missing chapter in the narrative of Canada’s Indigenous peoples—the story of the Métis Nation, a new Indigenous people descended from both ...

From acclaimed author Scott Eyman comes the fascinating story of how the transition from silent films to ‘talkies’ transformed Hollywood.It was the end ...

Sharon Wall ; Foreword By Graeme Wynn. Include Bibliographical References (p. 334-354) And Index.Categories: Politics & Social Sciences Social SciencesC...

NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL MOVIE STARRING MACHINE GUN KELLY, DANIEL WEBBER, DOUGLAS BOOTH, AND IWAN RHEON, DIRECTED BY JEFF TREMAINE. Celebrate thirty years of...

National Book Critics Circle Award WinnerNew York Times BestsellerA New York Times Notable Book of the YearA Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of the...

My Secret SisterCategories: HistoryHistorical Study & Educational Resources

Letters of Noteis a collection of over one hundred of the world's mostentertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website...

The Roaring Twenties - the Jazz Age - has been characterized as a time of Gatsby frivolity. But it was also the height of the uniquely American hate group, ...

Presents An Intellectual History Of The West's Bias Against Tribalism That Explains How Acts Of War And Dispossession Have Been Justified In The Name Of Civ...

Few historians have done more to change the way we see the history of modern times than Eric Hobsbawm. From his early books on the Industrial Revolution an...

From the front fly-leaf: "The television series 'Upstairs, Downstairs' -- a brilliant portrait of British life during the late nineteenth and early twentiet...

This revised edition of the standard history of the first great period in Christian thought has been thoroughly updated in the light of the latest historic...